If a mp3 player can store 8 gigs of mp3's, play dvd movies, replace a play station, and admin my network from the the living room of my friend's house, sure I'll take it, but until then, I'll keep my laptop.
I was refearing to the mindset of the media in the most part.
Writing code for US is cool and fun but for the media it's dull and boring. Even showed someone a "hack"?? No? Why not? Well for me everytime I showed someone they lose intrest after the first 5 minutes.
"What do you mean it would take you all night?!?!? You're not a good hacker then!!"
Disclaimer:
I enjoy coding when I don't make 50 million typo's and it's one of the most rewarding things in my life, next to sex and driving a 400 hp hotrod I built.
Most of the stuff i listen to is done by artist that write music becuase they want to. Also just becuase I don't support the cd makers don't mean i steal from the artist. Why should I buy a cd when I don't even like cd's?!?!
Being the "haX0r" or "computer geek" at the party, when ever I break out the laptop to play mp3's everybody start saying "hack the FBI!" "crack some software for me" "break into my school and change my grades." I just wish once I would hear from someone something like "make this program run the way i want it to" or "help me secure my computer from evil people". It really bugs me. I have morals. I wouldn't steal from someone, trash someone's house, distroy what ever, turn off their power in real life just becuase I CAN, why would I do that in "cyber space"?
I believe it's really about the corruption in the world. People have to be good people in real life, just to get by, but when they get online it doesn't matter what they do. There's no big blue. They can do what they want and feel like a god when they DoS attack some lame server. Or setup a firewall that deny everything coming in with no services running and feel unstopable. Feeling powerful and unstopable is what people want to feel like. What is so great about spending 20 hours reading and writing code?!?! Nothing. Thus, you will see what hacker really are in the news.
Of course hacker have nose rings, wear all black, listen to electrica, and are outcast of the world.
A few weeks ago my friend wanted me to install windows on his box. He gave me a weekend so I'm like hell let's put Linux on this machine. The first night I install Redhat 6.1 becuase it was just release, what a waste of time, then Turbo Linux and SuSE just for the heck of it. Oh it was sweet, no problem with the video card, X went up at 1024*720 24 bit colors the 1st time. The nic went flawless. It was a really nice sweet install.
The next night I installed windows 98 on it. It took me four hours and 40 reboots to get the thing shipable. Windows couldn't find the NIC and I didn't have the drivers for it. Then had problems with the video card. Then it BSOD once when i was installing some programs. Had problems reading cd's I burnt. Between the 40 reboots, 5 crashes, 2 reinstalls, 3 formats, the B flick film and the haft gallon of ice tea I was burnt out and didn't want to do another windows install in my life.
It doesn't matter was os you use, NT, Windows 95, OS/2, AIX, Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, WHAT EVER!!! IF you run a gci script with a massive hole in it you will get hacked. It's just that simply.
If the guy that hacked it says it was becuase of the OS but becuase of the GCI scripts I would think about it and might believe it. But coming from the person that hacked it saying IT WASN'T a os problem but some third party CGI script with a neon sign pointing and flash "HEY HERE'S THE DOOR, make yourself at home" I would think it was a PR stunt put on by mircosoft.
If you are brand new to UNIX, Linux is a lot easier to understand then FreeBSD. *BSD can be rather hard to understand if you have never used Unix and alot geeks over look this, of course a lot of geeks pride them self on how complex something is and find is being like mircosft to make something "easy to use". Linux is growing becuase to a x M$ windows user it's a lot easier to use. Of course how "easy" something is matters totaly on what you know.
Would you put a FreeBSD or Linux box in front of a M$ windows junkie?
I run FreeBSD and OpenBSD on my servers and I love it, but I wouldn't give it to my newbie friend.
What about the complete idiots that sell it??
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The line should be:
98% of the rants about NT's purported instability and lack of security are the direct results of complete idiots that MADE it.
Funny, I can put a linux box in front of my friend that never had a computer and doesn't know anything about computers but everyday when he comes home to use it it's on and working fine but the windows box next to it crashes everyday. I'm not some idiot. I understand the registy and how to make things works. The thing is I fix one thing then something else that has not ties to what i just fix breaks.
You want to do a real world test??
Try this one time. Get two machines that are the same in everyway. Install NT on one. Linux on the other. Do everything stock with no changes what so every. Just install it with nothing special. Simple right? Now let both machine sit. Just doing nothing what so every. Since you are an admin or make your self out to be one. Which one would crash first?
What ever machine failed, it can't be blamed on the admin. It can't be blamed on the hardware. It can only be the people who made the OS.
Don't tell me it's was a user error. You can get 100's of 1000's of people at random to install linux then NT and I'm sure that NT will 99% of time fail first.
Oh btw, 100% of my linux crashes has been becuase of something I did. Not the software. Of course I have only crashed my 11 home systems 3 times total in the one year I have been using Linux and all of them was becuase I was trying something completely new to me.
Windows 98 crashed 20 times in 24 hours.
It's becuase of Winders!!!
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If we didn't know the guy using winders as a server that crashes every 3 or 4 days. Or our mom and pop using windows asking you to fix AOL becuase it crashed windows, again!, we wouldn't be stuck up on uptimes. Blame it on windows you must brag about up times!!! And when you see a winders users yell at them and tell them:
"It is becuase of people like you that use a crappy os that I feel the need to take pride in how long my computer is up without a reboot!! DAMN YOU!!! DAMN YOU TO HELL!!"
And start flinging brunt copy of linux at them. Aim for the eyes or head, it hurts more. Then sit down, chill, and run "top" and watch your uptime go up and be happy that you don't have to reboot to change the ip on your nic!!!
oh yeah it's not "stock" and you can blow up your chip just like if you mess up the rez setting with a modern moniter when you are setting up you can blow it up. =)
Charge every person that uses this type of messagesing system??? I would be one of the first people to write a new one.
They would have to tax the bandwidth (bits downloaded) to do anything affected and then the tax would be grossly out of balance. if it did happen i would vote everybody from the local school board to the whit house out of office ASAP!!!!
Reaching 4,000 mp3's on my system i really don't care what the RICA does, what a company does, what is released, what is new or what is old. I'm not going to delete my mp3's becuase mp4 comes out or becuase something better come out. I might convert them to save space but that's about it. And i don't care if you can buy a 24 gig for 200 bucks next year. I'll just buy two and with the space saving of mp4 i'll just grow my collection. And even if there is a cable, asdl, or a T1, i'll just might upload for once. And there is no way in hell i'll ever going to have another cd or tape in my car again once i get my empeg. So you see mp3 arn't going anywhere. I'm so sick of mp3 and internet allways being talked about in the same breath as if you can't have mp3s with out the net. BS. 50% of my collection was copying other people cd's that they left laying around thier houses. And no i didn't have thier permission and i don't care. I returned thier cd's cleaned and bathed.
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If a mp3 player can store 8 gigs of mp3's, play dvd movies, replace a play station, and admin my network from the the living room of my friend's house, sure I'll take it, but until then, I'll keep my laptop.
I was refearing to the mindset of the media in the most part.
Writing code for US is cool and fun but for the media it's dull and boring. Even showed someone a "hack"?? No? Why not? Well for me everytime I showed someone they lose intrest after the first 5 minutes.
"What do you mean it would take you all night?!?!? You're not a good hacker then!!"
Disclaimer:
I enjoy coding when I don't make 50 million typo's and it's one of the most rewarding things in my life, next to sex and driving a 400 hp hotrod I built.
Most of the stuff i listen to is done by artist that write music becuase they want to. Also just becuase I don't support the cd makers don't mean i steal from the artist. Why should I buy a cd when I don't even like cd's?!?!
Being the "haX0r" or "computer geek" at the party, when ever I break out the laptop to play mp3's everybody start saying "hack the FBI!" "crack some software for me" "break into my school and change my grades." I just wish once I would hear from someone something like "make this program run the way i want it to" or "help me secure my computer from evil people". It really bugs me. I have morals. I wouldn't steal from someone, trash someone's house, distroy what ever, turn off their power in real life just becuase I CAN, why would I do that in "cyber space"?
I believe it's really about the corruption in the world. People have to be good people in real life, just to get by, but when they get online it doesn't matter what they do. There's no big blue. They can do what they want and feel like a god when they DoS attack some lame server. Or setup a firewall that deny everything coming in with no services running and feel unstopable. Feeling powerful and unstopable is what people want to feel like. What is so great about spending 20 hours reading and writing code?!?! Nothing.
Thus, you will see what hacker really are in the news.
Of course hacker have nose rings, wear all black, listen to electrica, and are outcast of the world.
umm...
yeah...
A few weeks ago my friend wanted me to install windows on his box. He gave me a weekend so I'm like hell let's put Linux on this machine. The first night I install Redhat 6.1 becuase it was just release, what a waste of time, then Turbo Linux and SuSE just for the heck of it. Oh it was sweet, no problem with the video card, X went up at 1024*720 24 bit colors the 1st time. The nic went flawless. It was a really nice sweet install.
The next night I installed windows 98 on it. It took me four hours and 40 reboots to get the thing shipable. Windows couldn't find the NIC and I didn't have the drivers for it. Then had problems with the video card. Then it BSOD once when i was installing some programs. Had problems reading cd's I burnt. Between the 40 reboots, 5 crashes, 2 reinstalls, 3 formats, the B flick film and the haft gallon of ice tea I was burnt out and didn't want to do another windows install in my life.
Increased speed? Reduced size? Bug fixes??
Nope, new `features' and a enhanced user interface!!
Religion is the way you live and understand the world around you anyway it suits you.
It doesn't matter was os you use, NT, Windows 95, OS/2, AIX, Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, WHAT EVER!!! IF you run a gci script with a massive hole in it you will get hacked. It's just that simply.
If the guy that hacked it says it was becuase of the OS but becuase of the GCI scripts I would think about it and might believe it. But coming from the person that hacked it saying IT WASN'T a os problem but some third party CGI script with a neon sign pointing and flash "HEY HERE'S THE DOOR, make yourself at home" I would think it was a PR stunt put on by mircosoft.
that would be cool as hell use it as some X11 web brower type deal
If you are brand new to UNIX, Linux is a lot easier to understand then FreeBSD. *BSD can be rather hard to understand if you have never used Unix and alot geeks over look this, of course a lot of geeks pride them self on how complex something is and find is being like mircosft to make something "easy to use". Linux is growing becuase to a x M$ windows user it's a lot easier to use. Of course how "easy" something is matters totaly on what you know.
Would you put a FreeBSD or Linux box in front of a M$ windows junkie?
I run FreeBSD and OpenBSD on my servers and I love it, but I wouldn't give it to my newbie friend.
The line should be:
98% of the rants about NT's purported instability and lack of security are the direct results of complete idiots that MADE it.
Funny, I can put a linux box in front of my friend that never had a computer and doesn't know anything about computers but everyday when he comes home to use it it's on and working fine but the windows box next to it crashes everyday. I'm not some idiot. I understand the registy and how to make things works. The thing is I fix one thing then something else that has not ties to what i just fix breaks.
You want to do a real world test??
Try this one time. Get two machines that are the same in everyway. Install NT on one. Linux on the other. Do everything stock with no changes what so every. Just install it with nothing special. Simple right? Now let both machine sit. Just doing nothing what so every. Since you are an admin or make your self out to be one. Which one would crash first?
What ever machine failed, it can't be blamed on the admin. It can't be blamed on the hardware. It can only be the people who made the OS.
Don't tell me it's was a user error. You can get 100's of 1000's of people at random to install linux then NT and I'm sure that NT will 99% of time fail first.
Oh btw, 100% of my linux crashes has been becuase of something I did. Not the software. Of course I have only crashed my 11 home systems 3 times total in the one year I have been using Linux and all of them was becuase I was trying something completely new to me.
Windows 98 crashed 20 times in 24 hours.
If we didn't know the guy using winders as a server that crashes every 3 or 4 days. Or our mom and pop using windows asking you to fix AOL becuase it crashed windows, again!, we wouldn't be stuck up on uptimes. Blame it on windows you must brag about up times!!! And when you see a winders users yell at them and tell them:
"It is becuase of people like you that use a crappy os that I feel the need to take pride in how long my computer is up without a reboot!! DAMN YOU!!! DAMN YOU TO HELL!!"
And start flinging brunt copy of linux at them. Aim for the eyes or head, it hurts more. Then sit down, chill, and run "top" and watch your uptime go up and be happy that you don't have to reboot to change the ip on your nic!!!
Couldn't say it better myself!!! I hate people with god complexes.
Where can i buy these old crappy used computers???
intel does it why can't you???
oh yeah it's not "stock" and you can blow up your chip just like if you mess up the rez setting with a modern moniter when you are setting up you can blow it up. =)
It doesn;t matter
How will buy it but a massive amount of fools!
blah! you bored bastards!
Please how are they going to tax it??
Charge every person that uses this type of messagesing system??? I would be one of the first people to write a new one.
They would have to tax the bandwidth (bits downloaded) to do anything affected and then the tax would be grossly out of balance. if it did happen i would vote everybody from the local school board to the whit house out of office ASAP!!!!
Don't forget you have to boot the W2k machine to crack it... or kick all the MCSE out of the way..
Cool... Didn;t think about that.. I'll start on it the week. I should have enough. Hmmm... Where are my lego's?
If i finsh it i'll post it some where
"It?s incomprehensible why a tool like this would be created. [...] [T]here?s no pur.......
What is the ? for????????????
Can't the mircosoft.com servers handle ' ????
What sort of crap is that!!!
Oh, um, BO2k, um, Don't use Windows ALL PROBLEM SLOVED!!!!
Reaching 4,000 mp3's on my system i really don't care what the RICA does, what a company does, what is released, what is new or what is old. I'm not going to delete my mp3's becuase mp4 comes out or becuase something better come out. I might convert them to save space but that's about it. And i don't care if you can buy a 24 gig for 200 bucks next year. I'll just buy two and with the space saving of mp4 i'll just grow my collection. And even if there is a cable, asdl, or a T1, i'll just might upload for once. And there is no way in hell i'll ever going to have another cd or tape in my car again once i get my empeg. So you see mp3 arn't going anywhere. I'm so sick of mp3 and internet allways being talked about in the same breath as if you can't have mp3s with out the net. BS. 50% of my collection was copying other people cd's that they left laying around thier houses. And no i didn't have thier permission and i don't care. I returned thier cd's cleaned and bathed.